Social Groups

Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the developm...

What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perc...

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanitie...

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about rac...

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between ru...

In 1863, San Franciscos Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in a dress not belonging to his or her sex. Adopted...

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as...

Identity and Social Change examines the thorny problem of modern identity. Trenchant critiques have come from identity politics, focusing on the co...

2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleHonorable Mention, 2019 Herndon Book Prize - (SEM-GST)A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can ...

Honorable mention, 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Many Americans stil...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes th...

While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have...

Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association Duri...